{"id":727,"date":"2011-03-31T15:24:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T13:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=727"},"modified":"2011-03-31T15:58:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T13:58:07","slug":"a-new-fissure-starts-to-form-in-thingvellir-national-park-almannagja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"A new fissure starts to form in Thingvellir National Park (Almannagj\u00e1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a news on R\u00fav. A new fissure has opened in south part of Almannagj\u00e1. It is not clear when this fissure started to form, but it looks to have formed in rather recent time (years?). But this fissure was discovered after a snow and frost started to thaw out of the ground in the last few weeks. This new fissure is about 10 to 14 meters deep and is under the middle of the walking path that is in this area. It has now been closed for safety reasons. Tourists and people how are travelling this area of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingvellir.is\/english\">Thingvellir<\/a> are asked to respect the travel ban in this area. But this is a deep fissure and it is unmarked and dangerous. <\/p>\n<p>This area is in part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/world\/volcano.cfm?vnum=1701-05=\">Hengill volcano<\/a> fissure swarm. But it on the north-east edge of the end of that fissure swarm that extends from Hengill volcano.<\/p>\n<p>News about this fissure formation. With picture. Use Google Translate with care. After all, it doesn&#8217;t understand Icelandic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/djup-sprunga-fannst-undir-gongustig\">Dj\u00fap sprunga fannst undir g\u00f6ngust\u00edg<\/a> (R\u00fav, Icelandic)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dv.is\/frettir\/2011\/3\/31\/djup-sprunga-myndast-i-almannagja\/\">Dj\u00fap sprunga myndast \u00ed Almannagj\u00e1<\/a> (DV, Icelandic)<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated at 15:57 CEST on the 31. March 2011. New newslink added.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a news on R\u00fav. A new fissure has opened in south part of Almannagj\u00e1. It is not clear when this fissure started to form, but it looks to have formed in rather recent time (years?). But this fissure was discovered after a snow and frost started to thaw out of the ground in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=727\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A new fissure starts to form in Thingvellir National Park (Almannagj\u00e1)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,65,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hengill","category-rift-zone","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}